General Prison Information

Contact Information

Below you have the street address and mailing address for Bennettsville Federal Correctional Institution. Use the mailing address if you are sending a letter or package to an inmate at Bennettsville Federal Correctional Institution, and make sure to use the physical address if you need to know the location of the prison.

Mailing Address

Make sure to read the Inmate Mail and Package Procedures information on this page if you are going to send a package or letter to a prisoner so that you correctly address the package or letter, and use the right procedure for sending a package or letter. If you do not use the correct steps, the package or letter could get sent back.

Street Address / Prison Location

Use the street address if you plan to visit a prisoner. Make sure to also read the Inmate Visitation Procedures and Inmate Visitation Schedule sections below if you are going to try to visit someone in prison at Bennettsville Federal Correctional Institution.

Phone Number

Bennettsville Federal Correctional Institution inmates don’t have telephones, so you won’t be able to call an inmate, however, there are times when it might be necessary to know the telephone number to the facility.

(843) 454-8200

Fax Number

Federal inmates don’t have fax machines, so you won’t be able to send a fax to an inmate, but there are times when it might be necessary to know the fax number to Bennettsville Federal Correctional Institution.

(843) 454-8219

Email Address

The email address listed below is the main email for the prison. You cannot email prisoners at this email. If you need to email a prisoner, check out the Inmate Email information below.

BEN/PUBLICINFORMATION@BOP.GOV

Inmate and Staff Statistics

Total Inmates: 1,785

Inmate Email

To email a letter to a prisoner at Bennettsville Federal Prison you must follow an exact process to ensure that the email gets to the inmate.

TRULINCS – Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System

Prisoners are allowed to email messages only from people that are on their approved contact list. An federal inmate has to make a request to send and recieve email messages with a family member or friend by putting them in their contact list.

All email is monitored. prisoners give their consent to being monitored when they join the program. Family and friends of the inmate give consent to email monitoring when they agree to corresponding with the prisoner and are reminded every time that they get email correspondence from the prisoner.

When a person is approved they will get an email confirmation which directs them to CorrLink at www.corrlink.com.CorrLink Inmate Email System

Email correspondence may not jeopardize the public or the security, safety, or operation of the prison. In addition, emails should not exceed 13,000 characters. Email messages that don’t follow these rules will not get delivered.

Inmate Internet Access

Federal prisoners don’t have access to the internet.

Inmate Mail and Package Procedures

There are certain procedures that you must follow when sending a package or letter to a federal prisoner. If you don’t then letter or package might not get delivered.

Before you send anything, be sure to read the sections below:

Mail Monitoring

Bennettsville Federal Correctional Institution guards will open and read and inspect all received general packages and mail. Received general correspondence can be read as frequently as is necessary to keep safety and security or watch a problem regarding inmates.

How to Address a Letter to an Inmate

This is the proper format for how you have to address a package or letter to a federal prisoner at Bennettsville Federal Prison:

The deposit have to be in a money order that is made out to the prisoner’s full committed name and complete eight-digit register number. You are advised to use a U.S. Postal Service money order, since all non-postal money orders processed through the National Lockbox will be kept for a 15-day hold, and in this time the prisoner will not get the money. The Bureau of Prisons will return funds that don’t have correct prisoner info if the envelope it was sent it has a return address. Cash and personal checks cannot be deposited to the prisoner’s account so do not send checks or cash.

Via Western Union Quick Collect Program: Prisoner’s friends and family may also send prisoners money using Western Union’s Quick Collect Program. Money sent to a prisoner using the Western Union Quick Collect Program can be sent via one of these methods:

At a physical location using cash. In order to locate the closest agent, you can call 1-800-325-6000 or visit www.westernunion.com.

By phone with a credit/debit card: Call 1-800-634-3422 and select menu option 2.

Inmate Locator

Prisoners are often transported to different correctional facilities around the country, so you might need to find where an inmate is located using the inmate locator. Click on the link here to look up an inmate.Inmate Search

Inmate Visitation Schedule

Visiting hours are from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as well as every federally recognized holiday.

Inmate Visitor Procedures

Every federal prison has its own rules for prison visitation and they get changed often. The rules below may be different when you are reading this, so make sure to also go to the prison’s official website to get the latest visitation procedures.

Visitation Sign-In and Check-In

The visitation guard will make sure every visitor signs the prison visitors log when they enter the prison and upon departure.

Identification Required

Picture ID of all visitors is required. Acceptable forms of id are Driver’s License and Social Security Card; although, a state issued photo id is OK.

For all of the things shown below, go to the actual prison website as this info is changed frequently:

Visitation Rules

Visitation Dress Code

Things You Can and Cannot Take to Visitation

Special Rules For Childred, Special Visits, Pastoral or Attorney Visits